Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

That man is idle who can do something better.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.